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The Student Loan Crisis Is Real and Growing Worse0
Student loan debt has become one of the most persistent financial burdens Americans face today. Some argue that it should be erased. Others insist borrowers are solely to blame. But neither position reflects the reality of the situation. The truth is simpler and more troubling. The student loan system has expanded beyond its original purpose and now
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Here’s What French Elementary Schools Are Doing Right0
I went back to elementary school immediately following my college graduation. No, it wasn’t remedial coursework! Instead, I am putting my English major and French minor to work in Angers, France, as the primary English language teacher in two French preschools and elementary schools between January and July. Beyond the culture shock of moving from
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Finding Help and Hope Amidst Loneliness0
The number of Americans receiving some sort of mental or emotional health treatment more than doubled from 2002 to 2024, rising from 27.2 million people to 60 million, a recent Statista article shows. Anxiety and depression are the most commonly cited reasons for seeking treatment. Experts credit this increase to the Covid lockdowns, less stigma attached to
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What Baby Vance and Benjamin Franklin Have in Common0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- January 23, 2026
Of all the news to hit this last week, some of the happiest is that Vice President JD Vance and his wife are expecting a baby. “We are very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are looking
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The Myth of Productivity in a Culture Addicted to Motion0
We’re obsessed with motion. Calendars fill up faster than we can keep track. Notifications never stop. We celebrate people who work insane hours like exhaustion is some kind of badge of honor. Somewhere along the way, just moving became how we measure success. But motion isn’t progress. Being busy is not equal to being productive.
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Are We Too Smart for Our Own Good?0
When I was a kid in Boonville, N.C., I’d occasionally hear a grownup say, “He ain’t got a lick of sense,” meaning someone had just done something really stupid. I’d also hear, “That old boy’s too smart for his own good,” meaning someone with an overabundance of brains unchecked by common sense can bring himself
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MLK Day: The Last Bastion of Boomer Wokism0
Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington in 1963 sounds innocent enough. Indeed, it sounds so uncontroversial that many conservatives and conservative groups are fond of quoting it as a gotcha against the farthest fringes of recent woke race theory. “I have a dream that my four
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The Shrinking Truth Horizon0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- January 21, 2026
In a recent article for Plough, Paul Kingsnorth posed the following question: “How long will it be, after all, before AI manipulation means that we cannot trust anything we read, see, or hear online? Months? A year?” Already, AI can generate text, audio, and video that can only barely be distinguished from human-produced content. “Deep fakes” abound.
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‘Socialization’ Depends on Who’s Doing the Socializing0
I was conversing with an 80-year-old neighbor recently who taught and coached for decades in public schools in New York City and here in Virginia. When I mentioned having taught seminars in literature, history, and Latin to homeschoolers, he instantly brought up socialization, a word I’ve heard linked to homeschoolers since my wife and I
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